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On Spinors of Zero Nullity

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We present a necessary and sufficient condition for a spinor \({\omega}\) to be of nullity zero, i.e. such that for any null vector v, \({v \omega \neq 0}\) . This dives deeply in the subtle relations between a spinor \({\omega}\) and \({\omega_c}\) , the (complex) conjugate of \({\omega}\) belonging to the same spinor space.

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Budinich, M. On Spinors of Zero Nullity. Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras 25, 771–786 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-015-0547-8

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